Nation: Mission Impossible

A doctor of law, a career diplomat in the Austrian foreign service,
staid, elegant Kurt Waldheim had never confronted such a scene. Several
hundred maimed Iranians, all veterans of the rioting that toppled Shah
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi a year ago, shook their crutches and artificial
limbs at the United Nations Secretary-General as they swarmed around
him at a former military officers' club in Tehran. "Waldheim, look at
us," shouted one of the wounded demonstrators. "Give the Shah back to
us!" One man plucked out his glass eye...